With Andy Goldsworthy Land artist Elements of art With Andy Goldsworthy Land artist

You Need: Sketchbook & Pencil Monday October 28, 2013 You Need: Sketchbook & Pencil Warm Up: Draw a design made out of leaves, flowers, and sticks

Clip From Rivers and Tides: Do You see Visual Arts Elements Clip From Rivers and Tides: Do You see Visual Arts Elements? IS this art? What is its purpose? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9TyHzP-8b8

Andy Goldsworthy Contemporary English Artist /Naturalist “For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.” Andy Goldsworthy- retrieved from http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/philosophy.html Andy Goldsworthy Contemporary English Artist /Naturalist

Monday October 28,2013 Learning Targets I can collaborate to analyze and present an artwork I can collaborate to plan a Goldsworthy style project. Schedule Warm Up Clip from Rivers and Tides Art Circles: Andy Goldsworthy Projects analysis Presentations Closure: Brainstorming ideas for tomorrow.

“For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.” Andy Goldsworthy- retrieved from http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/philosophy.html

Can you Find the elements of Art ? In Andy Goldsworthy’s Art ?

Andy Goldsworthy, Autumn Cherry Leaves

Andy Goldsworthy, (1980s) Ice Spiral Tree Soul Dumfriesshire Scotland

By Sam Bleckley posted on his blog May 31 2009 retrieved from Andy Goldsworthy, out in the morning, the winter, and the wilderness, is working to the rhythm of the sun, though the it has not yet risen. He is alone, and has brought no tools. Beside him rests a pile of large icicles, and he is going to work. Snapping, spitting, and re-freezing the ice at a pace just a bit faster than seems comfortable, he must finish his work before the day warms up, and his saliva will no longer freeze. As the sun rises, he completes the work. Hanging uncannily around the trunk of a tree, levitating over the snow, is a spiral of ice. It doesn't seem to touch the tree at all; but it grows from it. The spiral begins high on the trunk, the tip made from the most delicate icicle, and already a glinting layer of liquid water has formed as it melts. The ice loops around the trunk again and again, growing thicker and bolder, surging to several inches across by its end. Before the day is done, it will have crashed to the ground. The photos, once developed, are breathtakingly beautiful. Goldsworthy calls the work 'Tree soul.’ By Sam Bleckley posted on his blog May 31 2009 retrieved from http://diiq.blogspot.com/2009/05/tree-unadorned.html

Andy Goldsworthy, (December 1987) Snow Circles, Izumi-Mura Japan

"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn.  -Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy, Driftwood Igloo

He creates an igloo out of driftwood collected from the beach He creates an igloo out of driftwood collected from the beach. When the tide comes in, the wooden structure begins to float and then drift to the sea in a slow swirl. But Goldsworthy is not attached to his art: "It feels as if it's been taken off into another plane, another world . . . It doesn't feel at all like destruction.”- Andy Goldsworthy Retrieved from http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=9214

Andy Goldsworthy (1983) Red Leaf Patch, Brough Cumbria

"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn. " - Andy Goldsworthy Retrieved from http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

Andy Goldsworthy, River Rock finished with gold leaf

"The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. “One way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.”- Andy Goldsworthy Retrieved from :http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

Andy Goldsworthy, (October, 1987) Rowan Leaves and Hole, Yorkshire England

"The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. “One way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.”- Andy Goldsworthy Retrieved from :http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

Andy Goldsworthy, (2001) The Neuberger Cairn, Purchase New York

The project, Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns, is based upon his idea to connect the nation’s heartland with its East and West coasts. Cairns are symbolic stone constructs that identify a place, which may have societal or ritualistic importance like Stonehenge. Typically, the stones that constitute the cairn are held together solely by their own weight. Retrieved from

Andy Goldsworthy (1985) Carefully Broken Pebbles scratched white with another stone

Diary: 1st June

In the evening went to small
beach to work as the sun
went down - time the 
completion of work with 
sundown - broken stones
-cracked in two -not easy.
Scratched white around cracks
- made a sort of spiral which
suited this work - this is how 
forms such as spirals/circles/balls 
appear - out of the making and not
taken out there to be imposed
When I do that work is stiff http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=ag_03285&t=1

Andy Goldsworthy, Boulder wrapped in Poppy Petals

When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there. – Andy Goldsworthy Retrieved from http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, ( May 1983) Torn line in garlic leaves
 Swindale Beck, Cumbria


Diary: 9th May
Swindale Beck - garlic leaves - torn line - strange effects
happening with the leaves - subtle greens [...]
enjoyed it - much better day.

Felt good to find
something so responsive

What does it mean to be Ephemeral? Ephemeral means temporary. Andy Goldsworthy’s artwork lasts as long as the environment allows it.